Paper ID #18679Experiential Learning through Industry PartnershipDr. Masoud Fathizadeh P.E., Purdue University, Calumet (College of Technology) Masoud Fathizadeh – PhD, PE Professor Fathizadeh has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Purdue University Calumet since 2001. He has worked over 15 years both for private industries and national research laboratories such as NASA, Argonne and Fermi National Laboratories. Dr. Fathizadeh has established his own consulting and engineering company in 1995 spe- cializing in power system, energy management and automation systems. During last twenty
: • Curriculum Enhancement Activities (CEA) – Hands-on, inquiry-based K-12 STEM curricula o The outreach program at ECSU utilizes current existing grade appropriate CEAs adopted through well-established NASA STEM curriculum and integrate 3D printing, sensor-based measurement modules, and mini quadcopter UAV design to further enhance the learning experience. Students participating in the program completed a total of thirty-six (36) to Forty (40) hours of hands-on learning per year. • Aerospace Educational Laboratory (AEL) o The AEL consists of fifteen computerized lab stations loaded with CEAs with specific emphasis on the NASA Science and
challenges of university-owned control laboratories has sparkedconsiderable interest in student-owned control experiments 8,9,10 . The focus on student-ownedcontrol experiments has lead to many novel platforms such a small robotic vehicle with a custommicro-controller board 11 and a 3D printed experiment for balancing a ball on a plate 12 . Otherinstructors have used extensive simulations 13 and haptics 14 to enrich dynamic systems andcontrol courses.The abundance of online videos on control-related topics along with the relative ease with whichinstructors can create and distribute their own lecture videos has brought into question how to bestuse face-to-face instruction time. One answer to this question is to "flip" the course by having thestudents
Paper ID #18997Examining Student Misconceptions of Conservation of Mass and Energy inPipe Flow using Very Low Cost ExperimentsProf. Robert F. Richards, Washington State University Dr. Robert Richards received the Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. He then worked in the Building and Fire Research Laboratory at NIST as a Post-Doctoral Researcher before joining the faculty of the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University. His research is in thermodynamics and heat and mass transfer. Over the last five years he has become involved in developing and disseminating
including the Air Force wide award for Outstanding Science and Engineering Educator. He has served as a Senior Area Editor and an Associate Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters and as a Guest Editor for The IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 On Student Collaboration and Competition in an Inquiry-Based Multiuser Communications and Jamming ExerciseAbstractThis paper describes an inquiry-based laboratory exercise used to introduce senior-level electricalengineering students to the concepts of multiuser communication systems. The exercise includesboth collaborative and competitive gaming elements, and requires students
levelelectrical engineering elective, Programmable Logic Controllers (EECS 5220).Perspectives on this course were obtained while taking the graduate course includingobservation of the instruction, participation in several laboratory experiments as well asexam questions.FINDINGSThe engineering science elective option, EECS 4220, Programmable Logic Controllers, isa newly developed course and as such may still require some modification of its courseconfiguration and student expectations. Upon conclusion of this course, this author spokewith several students and found that as far as the content and presentation of the coursematerial, most students seemed satisfied. Many commented that when this electivebecome available, the class was perceived as a great
University San Luis Obipso. Her research interests span engineering education, internationalization and embedded systems.Dr. Fred W. DePiero, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Dr. Fred DePiero received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State Uni- versity in 1985 and 1987. He then worked as a Development Associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory until 1993. While there he was involved in a variety of real-time image processing projects and several laser-based ranging systems. Fred began working on his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee while still at ORNL, and completed it in May 1996. Fred joined the faculty at CalPoly in September of 1996. He is presently serving
, Product Design, Specification, and Measurement,which includes the course syllabus, course project, and detailed steps for the course project. Thecourse aims to provide an introduction to product design with an emphasis on the tools, standardsand methods used for product and part representation, specifications and measurements. Itinvolves hands-on learning and exercises in CAD and metrology laboratories. The class includeslectures, quizzes, laboratory assignments and reports, a CAD modeling project, exams, and in-class participation. The course content covers three main parts: product design and specification,dimensioning and tolerancing, and metrology. Product design and specification focuses on theproduct design process and basics of engineering
engineering department and lately more instructional resources becameavailable 2, making SDR technology excellent choice for teaching both undergraduate andgraduate courses in communications. An example of instructional packages are offered byNational Instruments, including hardware platforms, software packages and communicationrelated teaching modules. Integrated curricula with SDR, across areas such as communications,signal processing, computer programming, electromagnetics, and embedded systems, wereintroduced in six US universities, in each case with a major laboratory component 3.Comparisons between course levels, majors, laboratory components, hardware and programmingenvironment used were discussed for the six universities participating and the
graduation. As such, the freshman year is filled with calculus and physics courses that arehighly theoretical and provide no logical connection to the engineering that lies ahead.5 Theremainder of freshman courses tend to be general education or other courses even further removedfrom engineering because students do not yet have the prerequisites to take standard engineeringcourses. As a result, students do not get to interact with engineering faculty, or experience hands-on laboratories or understand engineering as a profession. The result is often a higher than desiredattrition rate.Because so many engineering courses have adopted a freshman experience, the published literatureis abundant, especially through ASEE conference papers and the Journal
engineering design and students were required towork in teams to solve a variety of design tasks (e.g., designing a net-zero energy house forhabitat for humanity). Instruments previously established by Brewe and colleagues16 for use inintroductory physics laboratories were adapted for use. In brief, students were asked “Who doyou work with on engineering assignments (i.e., homework, projects, etc.)? Please list all.” Ofthe 860 students enrolled in the class, 725 responded to the survey resulting in a response rate of84%. This SNA question was administered as part of larger, pen and paper survey of studentattitudes towards diversity during the final weeks of the semester.Data was manually compiled into an edge list, a paired list describing all the
mentors helped studentswith, the amount of time that peer mentors and students spent together, and the perceptions thatpeer mentors had of their own actions.Participants. The student participants were recruited from 112 first-year students enrolled acrossour two sections of an introductory engineering design course in the fall semester of 2016. All ofthe students were also enrolled in one of six corresponding laboratory sections, with no morethan 20 students in a laboratory section. Four laboratory sections had 20 students, one sectionhad 19 students, and one section had 13 students. Of the 112 students, 27 (24%) studentsparticipated in the survey.The peer mentors who participated in the survey were recruited from 36 students who hadpreviously
Negotiate preliminary budgets December Application deadline for students Finalize research mentors Arrange student accommodations, laboratory tours, industry tours, etc. January Review applicants and select participants Agree on a number of students Ask selected participants to send their participating, keeping in mind the budget passport and visa information February Host a meeting with all accepted students Develop draft itinerary of research activities Review flights
”Summers by Design” (SBD) program, Dr. Tucker supervises students from Penn State during the summer semester in a two-week engineering design program at the ´ Ecole Centrale de Nantes in Nantes, France. Dr. Tucker is the director of the Design Analysis Technology Advancement (D.A.T.A) Laboratory. His research interests are in formalizing system design processes under the paradigm of knowledge discovery, optimization, data mining, and informatics. His research interests include applications in complex sys- tems design and operation, product portfolio/family design, and sustainable system design optimization in the areas of engineering education, energy generation systems, consumer electronics, environment, and
, and fifteen ‘teams’ of two to four students). The experience exposedstudents early in the major to the use of sensors, microprocessors, Arduino software, (remote)data acquisition, and the data processing methods useful for their upper level unit operations andprocess control laboratory courses. Projects included evaluating the economic potential of solarpanels or wind turbines installed on campus buildings, monitoring the temperature changes in arecyclable-material parabolic trough, and developing smart agriculture irrigation systems basedupon soil moisture readings. Voluntary feedback from thirty-seven students at the end of thecourse indicated that more than two-thirds of the respondents ‘Agreed or Strongly Agreed’ toqueries that the
- Energy, laboratory project, numerical natural gas and oil, nuclear, hydro, and sustainable sourcesintegration, Excel, measurements, lighting, freshman such as solar, wind, geothermal, and micro-hydro). This INTRODUCTION information provided motivation to examine ways to reduce energy consumption in a home, one of which is to use the At Rowan University, all freshman engineering most energy efficient lighting available.students take a two-semester engineering clinic course To deliver relevant scientific principles of the light bulbdesigned to introduce them to many of the topics they will
the Rockwell Automation laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state-of-the-art facility for education and research in the areas of automation, control, and automated system integration.Dr. Kory J. Goldammer, Richland CollegeBrian Morgan FlemingProf. Roderick R. Crowder, Richland College Professor Roderick Crowder is full-time Lead Faculty, Program Coordinator, and Engineering Curriculum Chair in the School of Engineering & Technology at Richland College of the Dallas County Community College District. His research interests include sustainable energy systems, RFID, engineering education, intelligent manufacturing system design and manufacturing system process automation.Mr. Ralph S. Wiser, Richland College
Paper ID #20480Creating an Instrument to Assess the Professional Formation of EngineeringStudents at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ)Prof. Bijan Sepahpour, The College of New Jersey Bijan Sepahpour is a registered Professional Engineer and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the College of New Jersey (TCNJ). He has served as the Chairperson of the ME department at TCNJ from 2006 through 2015. Prof. Sepahpour has been actively involved in the generation of design-oriented exercises and development of laboratory apparatus and experiments in the areas of mechanics of mate- rials and dynamics of machinery for
inengineering.In this work-in-progress paper, we describe a design-based research project that explores howstudents adopt positive learning behaviors and dispositions through a course, because positivelearning behaviors and dispositions have been shown to increase persistence through challengesand setbacks4.We have designed a course titled Engineering the Mind as an eight-week, second-half semestercourse that is offered for one semester-hour of credit. We plan to pilot this course in Spring 2017to prepare for the Fall 2017 offering.BackgroundDesign-Based ResearchDesign-based research (DBR) is a research paradigm that attempts to bridge laboratory studieswith complex, instructional intervention studies5. DBR is described as “theoretically-framed,empirical
comprehensive lower-divisionengineering curriculum, even at small-to-medium sized community colleges. This wasaccomplished by developing resources and teaching strategies that could be employed in avariety of delivery formats (e.g., fully online, online/hybrid, flipped face-to-face, etc.), providingflexibility for local community colleges to leverage according to their individual needs. Thispaper focuses on the iterative development, testing, and refining of the resources for anintroductory Materials Science course with 3-unit lecture and 1-unit laboratory components. Thiscourse is required as part of recently adopted statewide model associate degree curricula fortransfer into Civil, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing engineering bachelor’s
BONNAUD, Emeritus Professor at University of Rennes 1 (France) is also Executive Director of the National Coordination for Education in Microelectronics and nanotechnologies (for France), President of CNFM Association, Permanent Foreign Guest professor at South-East University (Nanjing, China), and Foreign Expert in the frame of ”1000 Talents” program of the Chinese Government; he obtained the title of State Specially Recruited Expert in April 2015. He managed a research laboratory in microelectronics during 25 years. He has supervised more than 40 PhD students, published or presented more than 500 papers in research and higher education activities about 150 with pedagogical purpose. Former President of the EAEEIE
instructor,whether the students believed she was female or male), no difference in the student ratings of theinstructors was found. However, when SET results were grouped by perceived instructor gender(i.e. both the female and male instructors, when the students believed each was female), studentsrated the perceived male instructor as significantly better than the perceived female instructor.These findings support the idea that there is a real bias that exists among students in evaluatinginstructors, not simply a difference in the teaching styles or teaching effectiveness betweenfemale and male instructors.Another study performed a laboratory experiment where students were shown an identicallecture delivered by a stick figure with a gender-neutral
Texas Aggies’ corevalues of respect, excellence, leadership, loyalty, integrity and selfless service.When completed, RELLIS will have five focal areas: an academic campus, a historic campus, afull-scale testing site, secure industry laboratories, and joint research facilities. The overarchingconcept is for one campus to provide new and multiple pathways to an academic degree forstudents with the opportunity to obtain multiple credentials, and to enable new technologies to bedeveloped and progress from the laboratory to the marketplace through collaborative educationand research.Chancellor Sharp estimated that when fully developed, as many as 10,000 students eventuallycould be studying at the RELLIS Gateway Education Center, the focal point of
smart materials, can befound in figure.Figure 6: Graphs showing student’s response when asked to rate their level of knowledge on A) energy materials and B) smart materials.Conclusion This paper provides an overview of the course Green Energy Materials & Engineering thatwas offered in the term of summer 2016 at the University of Texas at El Paso. This courses focuseson Green Manufacturing and Green Energy devices. Additionally, it emphasizes on studentsachieving hands-on experience through laboratory experiments. The laboratory setting associatedwith the class is also described. Students also learned how to conduct research in areas of nano-materials and nano-manufacturing. In order to quantify the success of
laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state-of-the-art facility for education and research in the areas of automation, control, and automated system integration. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Design of Remotely Accessible Automated Systems to Enhance Industrial Automation EducationAbstractIndustrial scale automated systems can be used to provide authentic learning experiences forstudents. Skillsets needed to design and build automated systems are essential to our nationaleconomy. However, students often have limited access to equipment due to limitations inavailable lab time and available equipment. This paper describes the design of three web
Arizona State University’s Ira A. FultonSchools of Engineering. The cohort-focused program was significantly expanded from previousyears (Pickett, et al. 2013), thanks to a three-year, $314,261, REU site grant awarded to QESST.The program, entitled, “Solar Energy Research for the Terawatt Challenge” allows nineundergraduate community college and university students to travel from around the country towork in ASU laboratories for nine weeks. The specific aim of the QESST REU site is forundergraduate students to be introduced to research and solar research specifically, experiencehow coursework they are studying can be put into practice in tackling the terawatt challenge, andpractice how the principles of scientific research can be applied to any
and Professor at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. He has been an invited keynote speaker for national and international conferences. He has been a Program Evaluator for ABET Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering programs in the US and for international programs. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 COMPUTING in CIRCUITS and SYSTEMSAbstract. Many engineering and computing programs offer an introductory course on electriccircuits analysis. Typically this is a three (3) credit hours lecture course, in some schoolsaccompanied by a 1 credit laboratory section. In our school the first circuit course is offeredwithout a laboratory
ideas and findings inan engineering environment. This style of course has been shown to display “a definite andmeasurable increase in student awareness and understanding of the engineering profession2.” Thisone day a week class is set up in a laboratory structure where there is a lecture followed by someexperimentation with software or hardware.The evolution of this class is based on the changes to the curriculum at the University of Tulsa aswell as faculty and student feedbacks, and will continue to change to reflect changes in the subjectsand engineering tools used.Software Tools © American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 2017 ASEE Midwest Section ConferenceThe software tools that
titled Data Mining–Driven Design (EDSGN 561). As part of the Engineering Design Program’s ”Summers by Design” (SBD) program, Dr. Tucker supervises students from Penn State during the summer semester in a two-week engineering design program at the ´ Ecole Centrale de Nantes in Nantes, France. Dr. Tucker is the director of the Design Analysis Technology Advancement (D.A.T.A) Laboratory. His research interests are in formalizing system design processes under the paradigm of knowledge discovery, optimization, data mining, and informatics. His research interests include applications in complex sys- tems design and operation, product portfolio/family design, and sustainable system design optimization in the areas
Paper ID #18918Microbial Fuel Cell Development and Testing for Implementing Environmen-tal Engineering Education in High SchoolsDr. Bradley A. Striebig, James Madison University Dr. Striebig is a founding faculty member and first full professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison University. Dr. Striebig came to the JMU School of from Gonzaga University where he developed the WATER program in cooperation with other faculty members. Dr. Striebig is also the former Head of the Environmental Technology Group at Penn State’s Applied Research Laboratory. In addition to Dr’ Striebig’s engineering work, he is also a